Beach Art from Burrum Heads

While on one of my daily morning wanders up and down the beach, I found this lovely piece of driftwood that resembled a bird,
and a little further along, I came across a beautiful piece of worn shell amongst the sand balls rolled by the soldier crabs,

Drip marks in the sand,

ripples in the sand made by the ocean sweeping out

and finally, these lovely leaf skeletons that motivated me to make a doilie like that which my grandmother and great aunts used to make (inspired by reading my good friend Candice Herne's recent blog posting).

Holiday Snaps - Easter Break at Burrum Heads, Queensland

We've just returned from Burrum Heads, 30 minutes north of Hervey Bay, Queensland, our favourite Easter holiday desination to take the kids and kick back and relax for a week. For the last 3 years, we have been taking our families camping at the Burrum Heads Beachfront Caravan Park which is close to everything, the water, the shops, etc so we don't have to get the car out all week.

As an added bonus to all the water and fishing activities, the annual Burrum Heads Amateur Competition is on at this time each year. Our 8 kids (3 families) always register in the competition and participate in all the fun activities put on including the opportunity to win great prizes like rods, reels and tackle boxes.

The kids were all mad keen little fisher people, here is a photo of Dave and Hunter concentrating on catching the "big one". Many fish were caught (probably our best year ever for fishing) including a 43cm spotted rock cod - yum!!

Another wonderful thing about Burrum Heads is that there is a lovely long shaded walkway right along the river which the kids can ride their bikes and Ripstiks along quite safely. Jesse and Brooke finally mastered the Ripstik, a "must do" this school holidays.

One of my favourite times of the day was to sit out by the water in the early evening with a glass of wine and good friends and watch the beautiful and usually spectacular sunsets. Can't wait for next year...............

Totally Awesome Easter Break Read - "Salvation Creek - An Unexpected Life" by Susan Duncan

I am currently reading "Salvation Creek - An Unexpected Life" by Susan Duncan. It a wonderful read, totally inspiring, honest and real. I can't put it down and am so looking forward to the Easter Break where I'll have more time to read! Wishing everyone a happy happy easter full of love and fun times (and chocolate!).

Dayboro Art Show 2010 - 26, 27 & 28 March

Paintings, drawings, sculpture and pottery

Dayboro Community Hall

Official opening

6.30pm to 8.30pm Friday, 26 March

Mueller International Chamber Orchestra Trio

www.attillasautov.com

Tickets $10

Opening Hours

9.30am to 4.00pm Saturday and Sunday, 27 & 28 March

Live entertainment. Food available. Free entry.

That Felted Feeling

The following are some of the felt pieces I have been working on. If you are looking for something different from the designs here, please let me know what you are looking for and perhaps i could make it or to make your own felt click here.

All of the following pieces are enough to make a removable cover for a journal, some A4 size, others A5 size.

This piece will cover an A5 journal. (SOLD)

This piece will cover an A5 size journal and has some hand stitched wool down the right side.

This piece will cover either an A4 or A5 size journal and has a hand stitched wool outline over the top of the tree. (SOLD)


This will cover an A5 journal and has hand stictched wool covering the tree.

This will cover an A5 journal.

At present, these pieces are all waiting for me to make into journal covers. If that is not what you are looking for, the piece can be purchased as is ($20 each) or again, let me know what you are looking for and we can go from there.

Martin Galleries - 4 fabulous exhibitions opening 4 March 2010

Martin Galleries is opening 4 fabulous new exhibitions this week. My friend and former Dayboro Community Art Gallery member, Tony Beckley, is participating in the Group Show.

A little bit about Tony and some pictures of previous works....

Printing Workshop at Thea and Sami

Last Saturday I attended a full day fabric printing workshop at Thea and Sami where Thea shared with me and 4 other keen and talented ladies, her immense knowledge, talent and experience on fabric printing. For 5 wonderful creative hours we learnt the art of cutting stencils and printing our own designs onto fabric. Click on this link to Thea and Sami blog for more photos of the other ladies printing.

Amongst other things, I screen-printed some seed pods onto a russian linen tea-towel and was very happy with the results. The printing bled through to simultaneously create a textured print on the paper underneath which was a wonderfully unexpected surprise.

For more details about Thea's fabric printing business, products using organic and sustainable fabrics, etc and more workshop dates please check out her website.